Syllabic consonant
- Syllabic consonant
A syllabic consonant is a
consonant which either forms asyllable of its own, or is the nucleus of a syllable. Those using the consonant make the syllable become a syllable by causing the consonant, thus creating a syllable. The diacritic for this in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet is the under-stroke, "northeast wind", IPA| [sχs] "seal blubber", IPA| [ɬqʰ] "wet", IPA| [ťɬɬ] "dry", or IPA| [nujamɬɬɬɬ] "we (IPA|ɬ) used to (IPA|ɬɬ) sing (IPA|nujamɬ)". However, it is not clear how one would define a syllable or a syllabic nucleus in such cases, and it's therefore not clear whether any of these consonants should be considered syllabic.There are "fricative vowels" in several languages, which are actually syllabic fricatives. In Mandarin these are written "sī" IPA| [ś] , "shī" IPA| [ś̠] , "rī" IPA| [ź̠] . Standard
Liangshan Yi has two "buzzed" vowels, written "IPA|ṳ, i̤", which are also syllabic fricatives, IPA| [β, ɹ̝] , and may even be trilled IPA| [ʙ̝, r̝] .See also
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N (kana) , Japanese syllabic N
*Semivowel
*R-colored vowel
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